an・kerの英語

語源

From Dutch anker. Doublet of anchor and ancora.

名詞

anker (plural ankers)

1. (obsolete) A measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this capacity.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “He is Made Acquainted with the Characters of Commodore Trunnion and His Adherents; Meets with Them by Accident and Contracts an Intimacy with that Commander”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 6, column 1:

     And if your honour ſhould want a ſmall parcel of fine tea, or a few anchors of right Nantz, I'll be bound you ſhall be furniſhed to your heart's content.

   • 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Master’s Wanderings”, in The Master of Ballantrae. […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 56:

     [I]t is quite a painful reflection how many whole crews we have made to walk the plank for no more than a stock of biscuit or an anker or two of spirit.

   • 1938 April, C[ecil] S[cott] Forester [pseudonym; Cecil Louis Troughton Smith], chapter V, in A Ship of the Line, Greenwich edition, London: Michael Joseph, published 1951 (February 1962 printing), →OCLC, pages 40–41:

     "God damn and blast all you hamfisted yokels!" he was saying. "And you, sir, down there. Take that grin off your face and be more careful, or I'll have you clapped under hatches to sail with us today. Easy, there, easy! Christ, rum at seven guineas an anker isn't meant to be dropped like pig iron!"

派生した語

• → Irish: ancaire

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “anker”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• naker, Karen, Kārēn, knare, ranke, karen, nerka, Krane

別の表記

• ancre, aunkir, ankor, ankur, ankir, ancher, ancour, hanker

名詞

anker (plural ankeres)

1. anchor

派生した語

• English: anchor (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: anchor, anker

参照

• “anker, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

名詞

anker

1. alternative form of ankre